DETECTIVES BY CHANCE: HUMBERT HUMBERT AND DANIEL QUINN IN SEARCH FOR NARRATIVE

DETECTIVES BY CHANCE: HUMBERT HUMBERT AND DANIEL QUINN IN SEARCH FOR NARRATIVE

Vladimir Nabokov and Paul Auster both employ the principle of chance in their work. The paper will discuss the narrative strategies in Lolita and The New York Trilogy, where chance operates as a means of expressing necessity (Bakhtin) and as a device for reworking the detective novel genre.

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Veröffentlicht in:British and American studies : B.A.S 2009 (15), p.143-152
Hauptverfasser: Đurić Paunović, Ivana, Vujin, Bojana
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Zusammenfassung:Vladimir Nabokov and Paul Auster both employ the principle of chance in their work. The paper will discuss the narrative strategies in Lolita and The New York Trilogy, where chance operates as a means of expressing necessity (Bakhtin) and as a device for reworking the detective novel genre.
ISSN:1224-3086
2457-7715